{"product_id":"time-travel-9780774831536","title":"Time Travel","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThis fascinating look at Canada’s living history museums – pioneer villages and old forts where actors recreate the past – shows how they reveal as much about Canadian post-war interests as they do about settler history.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eGordon’s research is meticulous and his writing exceptionally coherent. \u003ci\u003eTime Travel\u003c\/i\u003e is an excellent study of how priorities and preoccupations guide historical interpretation, and an important addition to the study of Canada’s heritage industry.\u003c\/p\u003e -- Ryan Porter * Canadian Literature, 236 *\u003cbr\u003e... Gordon pulls together a staggering amount of materials to provide a compelling glimpse into the history of living history. He illustrates the contradictions that abound—the tensions between scholarship and entertainment; between National and multicultural remembrance; between the colliding narratives of settler and Indigenous histories. There is more to be written on this story, and Gordon has made a significant contribution to this area of historical scholarship. \u003cem\u003eTime Travel\u003c\/em\u003e is a useful roadmap that scholars might utilize to explore the fascinating contradictions and interplay between narrative, history and authenticity, so exemplified in the living history museum.  -- Sean MacPherson * BC Studies *\u003cbr\u003eAs a comprehensive history of public history in Canada, \u003ci\u003eTime Travel\u003c\/i\u003e is a welcome text.  … \u003ci\u003eTime Travel\u003c\/i\u003e does a wonderful job of connecting experiments in living history with that national past. -- Claire Campbell, Bucknell University * Historical Studies in Education *\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eTime Travel\u003c\/i\u003e is an important book that provides keen insights in the understanding of the emergence of living history museums in mid-twentieth century Canada… In a masterful way, Gordon guides the reader through some of the intellectual debates that shaped the making of the living history museum movement.\u003c\/p\u003e -- Review by C. Kurt Dewhurst, Michigan State University Museum * Great Plains Quarterly 38.4 *\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eIntroduction: Living History Time Machines\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003ePart 1: Foundations\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e1 History on Display\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e2 The Foundations of Living History in Canada\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e3 Tourism and History\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003ePart 2: Structures\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e4 Pioneer Days\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e5 A Sense of the Past\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e6 Louisbourg and the Quest for Authenticity\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003ePart 3: Connections\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e7 Fur and Gold\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e8 The Great Tradition of Western Empire\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e9 The Spirit of B \u0026amp; B\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e10 People and Place\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e11 Genuine Indians\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eConclusion: The Limits of Time Travel\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eNotes\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIndex\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"University of British Columbia Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49404933865815,"sku":"9780774831536","price":73.8,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9780774831536.jpg?v=1730488104","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/time-travel-9780774831536","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}